> Could we come up with a scheme to decentralize the mailing lists so that> one host cannot result in everything failing and some means of automatic> load determination? Sounds complicated... Maybe someone here has an idea> to do it in a simple and easy way.

You create a domain - say "mailing-list.kernel.org" and make it an MXrecord with a short expiry. Now you run the bind patches that do hostup verification to pick which machine they respond with on the MX, finallyyou create a whole complex layer to avoid loops and to handle deliveryrouting.

Alternatively you can flood fill - it's called USENET ;) - unfortunatelywhen DaveM decided to dump Usenet the linux.* groups where left moderated,pointing to a dead address and dumped. Thats causing lots of people touse the lists who would have stayed using linux.* even if it was seperate,its removed a means where "xyz is down" messages get around and it looksincredibly unprofessional to news admins and usenet folks